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Monday, January 5, 2015

Happy New Year!!!

January 5, 2015

We have been having a ton of fun here, and it’s been really great
in Cornellá. We do so much, and we have so much success, and the blessings just
never stop. One neat thing that happened this week was that on Saturday, we had
a visit with a menos activo we have been working with for a while, and he was
sick, and so asked us to give him a blessing. As soon as we finished, he felt better, and so
we had an impromptu noche de hogar with him and his two kids, and then he and
his wife were in church Sunday for the first time in over a year. They only
stayed for sacrament meeting, but the fact that they were there was amazing.

This week we also had zone enfoque, (where I got a huge
package), Interviews with president (my companions last one until his release
interview the day he goes home) and Intercambios (I finally learned how to
solve a Rubik’s cube). Then, to top it all off, NEW YEARS!! It was a crazy
week.

To end, here is another little thing happened while we were
on intercambios. I was with Elder Jacobsen in my area, and we had a visit in
San Boi, a little pueblo about 20 minutes away. Well, we went out there, and the visit fired,
and so we went to go try some passby’s, which weren’t really fruitful, until we
went by a recent convert’s house. We couldn’t go in, but we stood in the door,
and talked for a bit. At one point, I was ready to go, but Elder Jacobsen kept
talking...and talking...and talking, but eventually we left, and just barely
missed the bus. So we sat down and waited for another 10 minutes, and caught
the next one. Well, as we got on, somebody behind us said, in English, “hello
elders.” So we of course started talking to them, and turns out it’s a family
from Honduras who are members. The dad has been here for six years, and looked
for the church when he first got here, but gave up real quick because his wife isn’t
a member. However, his daughter came
only a year ago, and she really wants to come to church. So we got their address
and number and everything else, and we’re going over there this week. It was
really neat, and we thought about how many things had to of happen for that to
work out. The visit had to fire, our passby’s couldn’t have been, and Elder Jacobsen
had to keep talking, even though he didn’t know why he did either. It was a
really neat experience. The Lord really is in charge of everything.